Should San Franciscans Support a Company that Won’t Support California?

Should San Franciscans Support a Company that Won’t Support California?

On Friday, Governor Brown signed an important online sales tax bill into law that makes companies conducting online sales in California pay state sales taxes. While no one likes the idea of more taxes, those of us who care about more revenue for our struggling state coffers should support this new law and demand that corporations that want our money support it as well.

But Amazon.com, a long-time force in the online sales market, announced they don’t plan to play by the new rules.

As Phil Ting has said, “We all love shopping online, but in these hard economic times everyone needs to pay their fare share, especially since Sacramento has drastically cut state spending in order to close a $26 billion budget gap.”

At Reset San Francisco, we say no. If Amazon.com doesn’t want to help out California, Californians shouldn’t want to help out Amazon.com.

This common sense tax could be a huge help to Californians and we should hold Amazon.com accountable for its actions by boycotting online sales with the company until it starts paying its fair share to California.

Join us in telling Amazon.com that if they don’t want to help California, California doesn’t want to help them.